• Scientific Director VIB.AI (2023-current)

• Gewoon hoogleraar (Full Professor) University of Leuven (2021-current)

• Hoogleraar (Full Professor) University of Leuven (2017-2021)
• VIB Group Leader (2016-current)
• Associate Professor University of Leuven (2014-2017)
• Assistant Professor University of Leuven (2009-2014)
• Postdoc at VIB, Bassem Hassan lab (2005-2009), Leuven
• Visiting postdoc at Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille, Luminy (IBDML), Marseille, France (2006), with Denis Thieffry and Carl Herrmann
• PhD Bioinformatics, School of Engineering (ESAT), University of Leuven (2001-2004)
• Bioinformatician, Data4s Future Technologies NV (2000-2001)
• Assistant IT Project Leader Janssen Pharmaceutica, Johnson&Johnson (1999-2000)
• Visiting undergraduate researcher at the Center for Genomic Sciences, Cuernavaca, Mexico (Jul-Nov 1998), with Esperanza Martínez-Romero.

• PhD in Engineering (Bioinformatics), Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT-SCD, University of Leuven (2004)
• Advanced Studies in Applied Computer Science, University of Brussels (2002)
• Master in Bioscience Engineering (Molecular Biology), University of Leuven (1999)

• Regulatory Genomics & Gene regulatory networks
• Single-cell and microfluidics technologies
• Next-generation sequencing
• Machine learning
• Drosophila genomics
• Regulatory heterogeneity in cancer
• Bioinformatics

• ERC Advanced grant 2022
• EMBO member since 2022
• Francqui Chair at ULB 2022
• ERC Consolidator grant 2017
• Prize for Bioinformatics and Computational Science 2017 from the Biotech Fund
• Astrazeneca Foundation Award Bioinformatics 2016
• PhD with Greatest Distinction and Congratulations from the Jury (2004)
• FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005 & 2008)
• HFSP Young Investigator Grant Awardee (2010)

• VIB Conference “The Brain Mosaic”, Leuven, 2024
• VIB Conference “Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences”, Leuven, 2024
• 3rd Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Berlin, April 2020
• LifeTime-VIB conference “Emerging technologies in single-cell sequencing”, 2020
• VIB Conference “The Brain Mosaic”, Leuven, 2019
• Workshop “Single cell approaches in Drosophila research” at EDRC 2019
• 2nd Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Janelia Farm, March 2019
• 1st Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Leuven, December 2018
• Program & steering committee ISMB RegGen COSI 2014-2019

• Scientific director of VIB.AI
• Member of the Leuven AI Institute
• Member of the Leuven Single-cell Omics Institute
• Board Member of the KULeuven Center for Human Genetics
• Board Member of the KULeuven Genomics Core
• Member of the Steering committee of the Supercomputer Center (VSC)
• Member of the Educational Committee of the BSs & MSc Biomed. Sciences (2009-2016)
• Member of the Educational Committee of the MSc Bioinformatics

• Co-founder of the Fly Cell Atlas consortium (https://flycellatlas.org)
• Partner in the LifeTime Consortium (FET Flagship CSA)

• Invited Speaker @ DIAH Conference, Ghent, 8th Feb 2024
• Invited speaker @ PRBB-CRG Scientific Session, 26th Jan 2024
• Invited talk @ ERGA BioGenome Analysis & Applications Seminar, 24th Jan 2024 (virtual)
• Invited talk @ NKI Seminar, Amsterdam, 8 Dec 2023
• Invited speaker @ Cold Spring Harbor Asia meeting on Systems Biology of Gene Regulation and Genome Editing, Suzhou, China, 23-27 Oct 2023
• Invited speaker @ Single Cell Genomics 2023, Engelberg, Switzerland, 9-11 Oct 2023
• Invited speaker @ Broad Institute’s Stanley symposium, 19th Sept 2023
• Invited speaker @ Kipoi Seminars, 5th July 2023 (virtual)
• Invited speaker @ 16th Berlin Summer Meeting, MDC, 6-7 Sept 
• Invited speaker @ NWO Life, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 25th May 2023
• Invited speaker @ Biodiversity Cell Atlas Meeting, CRG Barcelona, 14-15 May 2023
• Invited speaker @ Gene Regulatory Networks meeting, Oxford, 12-14 April 2023
• Invited speaker at the 18th Course on Epigenetics, organised by Institut Curie, 24th March, 2023
• Invited talk @ IMP Seminar, Vienna, 7-10 Feb 2023
• Invited talk, Montpellier Seminar, 10th Jan 2023
• Invited seminar @ Curie institute, 7th Dec 2022
• Invited speaker @ EMBO Workshop From functional genomics to systems biology, 18th Nov 2022
• Invited talk at EMBO members’ meeting 2022, 26-28 Oct 2022
• Invited speaker @ Single Cell Genomics 2022, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 17-19 Oct 2022
• Invited talk @ University of Basel and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 19th Sept 2022
• Invited speaker @ SCOG Single Cell Genomics meets Data Science, 12th Sept 2022
• Invited speaker @ Single Cell Technologies and analysis Course by Wellcome Trust / Sanger, 22 July 2022
• Invited speaker @ Single Cell Biology conference Wellcome Trust / Sanger, 6-8 June 2022 
• Invited speaker @ UCSD, 11th May 2022 (virtual)
• Invited speaker @ VIB Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences (4th edition), Mar 2022
• Invited speaker @ Symposium Medica “De Arts van Morgen”, 19th March 2022
• Invited speaker Bordeaux Inserm single-cell workshop 1-3 dec 2021
• Invited speaker at Oz single-cell, Brisbane, 2021 (virtual)
• Seminar @ Chromatin club, San Diego, 24th Sep 2021 (virtual)
• Seminar @ Genentech, 9th Sep 2021 (virtual)
• Invited talk @ ESHG, 28th Aug 2021 (virtual)
• Single-cell course Sanger Centre, July 2021 (virtual)
• Seminar @ Toulouse University, 25th June 2021 (virtual)
• Computational biology and bioinformatics (BOB) seminar, University of Warsaw, 26th May 2021 (virtual)
• Invited speaker and discussion leader at CSHL Conference Biology of Genomes, May 2021 (virtual)
• Invited speaker at the EMBL Conference on the identity and evolution of cell types, May 2021 (virtual)
• Keynote COS Heidelberg 19th May 2021 (virtual)
• Seminar at Bordet Institute, 12th Feb 2021 (virtual)
• Invited speaker at the ENS Paris single-cell workshop, 10th Feb 2021 (virtual)
• Invited speaker at Montpellier Omics Day 9th Feb 2021 (virtual)
• Seminar at UNAM, Mexico 29th June 2020 (virtual)
• Virtual seminar at the International Laboratory of Human Genome (LIIGH), UNAM, Mexico, 29th June 2020
• Virtual seminar at University of Glasgow, 11th June 2020
• Invited speaker at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Genomics symposium, 19-21st Feb 2020
• Seminar at Champalimaud, Lisbon, 9th Jan 2020
• Seminar at Manchester University, 12th Dec 2019
• Invited speaker at the CRG Symposium Barcelona, 14th Nov 2019
• Invited speaker at SCOG Symposium, Advances in Single-cell Epigenomics, Saarbrucken, 4th Nov 2019
• Invited speaker at U-CRC Cancer Symposium ULB, 25th Oct 2019
• Invited speaker at the VIB Conference Brain Mosaic II, Leuven, Oct 2019
• EDRC Lausanne, plenary speaker, Sep 2019
• Sanger Center, Single-cell course, 24th July 2019
• Keynote at ISMB, RegGen COSI, 22-23 July 2019
• Keynote 13th Interdisciplinary Graduate School Meeting, Münster, Germany, 25th April 2019
• EMBO Conference ‘Identity and Evolution of Cell Types, 15-18 May 2019, Heidelberg
• Seminar at Stem Cell Institute, Leuven, 20th May 2019
• Keynote at the RSG Bioinformatics student symposium, Leuven, 3 May 2019
• Congres of the Biomedical Sciences, Leuven, 2nd April 2019
• Drosophila meeting, Dallas, 27-31 March 2019
• 2nd Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Janelia Farm, 24-26 March 2019
• Seminar at Yale University, 28th Mar 2019
• Santa Fe workshop “Operationalizing the cell type”, 10-13 Mar 2019
• EDRC Lausanne, plenary speaker, Sep 2019
• Sanger Center, Single-cell course, 24th July 2019
• Keynote at ISMB, RegGen COSI, 22-23 July 2019
• Keynote 13th Interdisciplinary Graduate School Meeting, Münster, Germany, 25th April 2019
• EMBO Conference ‘Identity and Evolution of Cell Types, 15-18 May 2019, Heidelberg
• Seminar at Stem Cell Institute, Leuven, 20th May 2019
• Keynote at the RSG Bioinformatics student symposium, Leuven, 3 May 2019
• Congres of the Biomedical Sciences, Leuven, 2nd April 2019
• Drosophila meeting, Dallas, 27-31 March 2019
• 2nd Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Janelia Farm, 24-26 March 2019
• LifeTime presentation at the Aviesan meeting, Brussels, 22nd February 2019
• Seminar at Pasteur Institute, 15th February 2019
• Seminar at Humboldt University, Berlin, 24th January 2019
• FWO Kennismakers, 90 Years FWO, Brussels, 14th December 2018
• Core Facilities, Marie Curie Institute, Paris, 25th October 2018
• Opening of the Cancer Program, Doctoral School KU Leuven, 21 October 2018
• Systems Biology Workshop, Bordeaux, 15-16 October 2018
• Single-cell meeting Helsinki, 20th September 2018
• New York Genome Center, JLABS, 28th September 2018
• Sanger Center, Single-cell course, 24th July 2018
• Dutch Neuroscience Conference, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 7th June 2018
• Dutch Bioinformatics Conference, Lunteren, The Netherlands, 16th May 2018
• Retreat of the VIB Center for Cancer Biology, 15th May 2018
• Seminar at Crick Institute, 29th March 2018
• VIB Conference Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences, 8-9 March 2018, Leuven, Belgium
• Fly Cell Atlas meeting, Leuven, 8th December 2017
• German Bioinformatics Conference, Bielefeld, 24-25 October 2017
• Seminar at EPFL Lausanne, 2nd July 2017
• VIB Seminar, Zandhoven, The Netherlands, April 2017
• COST meeting, Malta, 2-4 April 2017
• Seminar at the Institut Curie, 22nd Feb 2017
• Seminar at Novartis, Basel, 1st December 2016
• Keynote presentation, JOBIM Lyon 28-30 June 2016
• Melanoma meeting, Varenna Italy, 9th June 2016
• Seminar at Imperial College London, 4th Feb 2016
• “Neuroblastoma in Berlin”, 14th December 2015
• Keynote presentation at the European Cancer Epigenetics Conference, 12-13 Nov 2015, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Invited speaker at IMEC Nanotechnology for Health, 23th Sep 2015, Leuven, Belgium
• Invited speaker at the BASF Bioscience Workshop, 28th Sep 2015, Ghent, Belgium
• Seminar at the University of Copenhagen, 4th June 2015 (Sandelin lab).
• Keynote Speaker at the Annual Symposium of From Nucleotides to Networks (N2N), UGent, 21st May 2015.
• 4th JEDI meeting, Carry-le-Rouet, Marseille, 9-12/9/2014
• Colloquium at TU Delft, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, 24th June 2014
• Invited speaker SocBIN Bioinformatics Conference, Oslo, 12th June 2014.
• Seminar at the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics IB2, ULB Brussels, 14th March 2014.
• Seminar at ErasmusMC, Department of Cell Biology, Rotterdam, 31st Oct 2013.
• Seminar at the IMP, Vienna, 23rd Oct 2013 (A. Stark lab).
• Seminar at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (IRIBHM), ULB Brussels, 19th Sep 2014 “Identification of master regulators and cis-regulatory interactions in human and - Drosophila gene networks”
• Keynote presentation at the Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group (RegGenSIG) at ISMB 2013, July 20, 2013, Berlin. “ Motif-based identification of master regulators and direct - TF-target interactions in human and Drosophila gene networks”.
• Invited speaker at the International Conference on Genomics, ICG-Europe, 26-28 June 2013, Ghent, Belgium, “Probing into leukemia genomes, transcriptomes, and regulatory networks”.
• Seminar at the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics, 10th May 2013.
• Invited speaker at the 1st International Gene-Arel Molecular Biology and Genetics Congress, “Bioinformatics applications in cancer (regulatory) genomics”, Arel University, Istanbul, 11-12 May 2013.
• Genetics Seminar Series, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, 24th April 2013.
• Seminar at the CABD, University of Sevilla, 24th January 2013.
• Seminar at the Oxford Fly Club, Oxford University, Stephen Goodwin lab, 24th October 2012.
• Seminar at Ghent University, 16th October 2012.
• Invited speaker at ECCB 2012, Basel, Switzerland, Sep 9th 2012. WS6 “Detecting transcription factor binding sites with chip-seq data and predicting damaging cis-regulatory variations”.
• Invited speaker at the ESF Conference on Systems Biology of Drosophila Development, 22-25 May 2012, Pultusk, Poland. “Regulator, target, and enhancer discoveries in Drosophila”.
• NGS User Meeting, 26 Apr 2012, Leuven “Gene regulatory networks in development and cancer”
• BGI-VIB Next-Generation Sequencing Meeting, 15th Feb 2012, Leuven. “Exome sequencing in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”
• B-IT Lecture Series in “Computational Methods in Systems Biology” April 07, 2011, Bonn, Germany. “Mapping gene regulatory networks in Drosophila species by transcriptomics and cis-regulatory sequence analysis”.
• Lecture at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 23th March 2011. “Regulatory Genomics”.
• European Conference on Computational Biology ECCB 2010, 26-29 September 2010, Tutorial “Current methods and applications for regulatory sequence analysis”
• Invited speaker at the Daphnia Genomics Consortium Meeting 2010, BioSCENTer Symposium, Leuven 26 March 2010. “A transcriptional regulatory network for retinal - differentiationinDrosophila differentiation in Drosophila”
• Seminar at the University of Freiburg, Germany (SFB 592 - Signalmechanismen in Embryogenese und Organogenese), 5th June 2009. “A transcriptional regulatory network for retinal differentiation in Drosophila”.
• 22th French Drosophila Conference, Carry-le-Rouet, 22-25 Oct 2008. “Transcriptional regulation of retinal differentiation in Drosophila”
• Seminar at the University of Trondheim, Norway, September 11 2008. “Identification of transcriptional targets in the regulatory network of Drosophila eye development”
• Seminar at the “Centre de Biologie du Developpement” (CNRS, Toulouse), 14 December 2007. “Computational Identification of Regulatory Interactions in Drosophila”
• Keynote speaker at UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit, April 13-15 2007, Tennessee US. “Computational Identification of Transcriptional Targets Across Multiple Genomes”
• Invited speaker at the RegCreative Jamboree ²⁹⁄₁₁-¹⁄₁₂ 2006. “Automatic generation of the Oreganno queue”.
• Seminar at Laboratoire de Genetique et Physiologie du Developpement CNRS - IBDML (Institut de Biologie du Developpement de Marseille-Luminy), 13 April 2006, “Computational discovery of cis-regulatory modules”
• Seminar at Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 30 Nov 2004, “Computational discovery of cis-regulatory modules in animal genomes”.
• Invited speaker at the 1st VIB MicroArray Users Group Meeting, 3/12/2001, Leuven, Belgium. MicroArray data analysis progress
• Invited speaker at the 2nd VIB MicroArray Users Group Meeting, 22/11/2002, Leuven, Belgium. Gene Regulation Bioinformatics
• Invited speaker at the opening of the DEA/DES Program of Bioinformatics, VUB, 24/09/04: “Methods and strategies in post-genomic gene regulation bioinformatics.”

• Single-cell genomics conference, Stockholm, 24-27 Oct 2019
• CSHL Meeting “Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression”, 20-23 March 2018
• Single-Cell Genomics, Tel Aviv, Israel, 15-19 October 2017
• Human Cell Atlas, workshop on model organisms, Berlin, 14th November 2017
• Janelia Conference on neuronal identity, 7-11 May 2017
• CSHL Meeting “Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression”, 15-19 March 2016
• EMBO Conference “Cancer Genomics”, EMBL Heidelberg, 3-5 Nov 2013
• EMBO Conference “From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology”, EMBL Heidelberg, 17-20/11/12
• 5th Benelux next-generation sequencing meeting, 20 Jun 2012, Leuven
• RECOMB Regulatory Genomics, Barcelona, 18-19 Oct 2011
• RECOMB Regulatory Genomics, Boston BROAD/MIT, 2-6 Dec 2009
• 50th Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, 4-8 March 2009
• EMBO Conference: From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology, Heidelberg, 15-18 Nov 2008
• The 20th European Drosophila Research Conference (EDRC) 2007, Vienna. Title: “Fine-tuning enhancer models to identify transcriptional targets across multiple genomes”.
• Young Scientist Day (The International Francqui Chair 2005-2006 - The Belgian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), 18 Dec 2006, Gembloux, Belgium. Title: “Fine-tuning enhancer models to identify transcriptional targets across multiple genomes”.
• 11th European Drosophila Neurobiology Conference, 2-6 Sept 2006, Leuven, Belgium. Title: “Predicting Atonal target genes by motif discovery”.
• The annual Belgian-Dutch FlyMeeting, 25 November 2005, Groningen, Netherlands. “Bioinformatics: computational prioritization of fly genes using genomic data fusion.”
• European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2003, Paris. Computational detection of cis-regulatory modules
• 4th Belgian Bioinformatics Conference, 23 April 2004, Brussels, Belgium. Computational discovery of cis-regulatory modules in animal genomes.
• 2nd Belgian Bioinformatics Conference (BBC), 12/04/2002, Namur, Belgium. Integration of microarrays, Gene Ontology and Sequence Analysis: a Case Study
• 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS), Maribor, Slovenia 2002. Web based data collection for ovarian cancer: a case study

• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, Jan28 - Feb1 2015, Puerto Rico.
• Melanoma Congress SMR, 13-16 Nov 2014, Zurich “Distinct regulatory landscapes underlie phenotypic differences between the invasive and proliferative melanoma cell states”.
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, Mar 20-24 2012. “Integrative CRM prediction approaches uncover new direct target genes of retinal determination - factors in fly and of cancer-related transcription factors in human.”
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, Mar 27-30 2008. “Practical identification of regulatory interactions in Drosophila transcriptional networks”
• Janelia Farm meeting “Expanding the genetic toolkit for Drosophila”, Oct 7-10 2007. “Fine-tuning enhancer models to predict transcriptional targets across mulitple genomes”
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, ²⁹⁄₃-⁴⁄₁ 2007. “Fine-tuning enhancer models to predict transcriptional targets across mulitple genomes”
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, March 17-20 2005. “TOUCAN Release 2 An All-inclusive Open Source Workbench for Regulatory Sequence Analysis”
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Global regulation of gene expression, March 17-20 2005. “Computational Candidate Gene Prioritization by Genomic Data Fusion”
• ISMB/ECCB 2004, July 31 - August 4 2004, Glasgow UK. Computational Gene Prioritisation.
• CSHL Meeting on Systems Biology: Genomic Approaches to Transcriptional Regulation, March 4 - 7, 2004, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York. Computational detection of combinations - of transcription factor binding sites within conserved non-coding regions.
• 3rd Belgian Bioinformatics Conference (BBC), 12/4/2003, Leuven, Belgium. Tools and algorithms for cis-regulatory sequence analysis in higher eukaryotes
• K.U.Leuven Faculty of Engineering PhD Symposium, December 11, 2002 Leuven, Belgium. Poster : TOUCAN: Deciphering Cis-Regulatory Logic of Coregulated Genes
• International Workshop in Bioinformatics: “Knowledge Discovery meets Drug Discovery”, 22-23.10.2002, Leuven, Belgium (Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2002). TOUCAN: Deciphering Cis-Regulatory Logic of Coregulated Genes
• European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), 7-9 October 2002, Saarbrucken, Germany. Toucan: a Workbench for Regulatory Sequence Analysis.
• Bioinformatics Conference, 2002, Bergen, Norway. Integration of microarrays, Gene Ontology and Sequence Analysis: Case Study.
• MGED III, Stanford University School of Medicine, March 29-31, 2001. Microarrays in disease management

• See Teaching
• Francqui Chair ULB 2022
• Biomedical Sources of Information (BA2 Biomedical Sciences, 35hr)
• Bio-informatics: Structural and Comparative Genomics (MA1, Master in Bioinformatics, 9hr)
• Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Sequence, StructureÊ& Evolution (MA1 Biomedical Sciences, 9hr)
• Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Expression, Regulation and Networks (MA2 Biomedical Sciences, 13hr)
• Advanced Studies in Genetics (MA2 Biomedical Sciences, 2hr)
• 2002-2008: Teaching assistant and Guest Lecturer (KULeuven, UGent)

As promotor

• 2023-: Sam Dieltiens
• 2023-: Niklas Kempynck
• 2023-: Vasileios Konstantakos
• 2022-: Darina Abaffyová
• 2022-: Alexandra Pančíková
• 2022-: Eren Can Ekşi
• 2022-: Hannah Dickmänken
• 2022-: Cas Blaauw

• 2020-: Seppe De Winter

• 2019-: Florian De Rop
• 2018-2020: Dafni Papasokrati
• 2018-2023: Ibrahim Taskiran
• 2017-2023: Carmen Bravo
• 2017-2022: Jasper Janssens
• 2017-2018: Duygu Koldere
• 2016-2020: Liesbeth Minnoye
• 2013-2021: Kristofer Davie
• 2012-2018: Jelle Jacobs
• 2012-2018: Hana Imrichova
• 2012-2016: Dmitry Svetlichnyy
• 2011-2015: Annelien Verfaillie
• 2010-2012,2018-2019: Bram Van de Sande
• 2009-2014: Marina Naval Sanchez
• 2009-2013: Zeynep Kalender Atak

As co-promotor

• Danie Daaboul 2021-
• Emir Erkol 2020-
• 2011-2014: Jonathan Crowther
• 2010-2022: Katina Spanier
• 2010-2017: Julio Finalet
• 2009-2017: Ruben Dries

Member of the PhD committee / jury

• Nicky Thrupp, 15 Nov 2023, KU Leuven
• Sarah Geurs, 18th Oct 2023, KU Leuven
• Koen Theunis, 12th Dec 2023, KU Leuven
• Vitalii Kleshchevnikov, 15th Sep 2023, Sanger Center UK
• Ashley Lu, 27th June 2023, KU Leuven
• Ruth Styfhals, 26th June 2023, KU Leuven
• Tania Aerts, 12th June 2023, KU Leuven
• Zhihan Xu, June 2023, Wellcome-MRC
• Dylan de vries, 14 Dec 2022, Universiteit Groningen
• Felix Raimundo, 7 Dec 2022, Curie Institute
• Katrien Neyerinck, 10 Dec 2021, KU Leuven
• Jonathan Desmet, 7 Dec 2021, KU Leuven
• Abbas Jariani, 5 April 2019, KU Leuven
• Aslihan Karabacak, 24th January 2019, Humboldt University, Berlin
• Aljosja Rogiers, 20th June 2018, KU Leuven
• 2018 Claudio Reggiani, ULB Brussels
• 2018 Martin Bizet, ULB Brussels
• 9th Nov 2017 Emre Etioglu, KU Leuven
• 21st Sep 2017 Xiaoyan Ma, Univ. Cambridge
• 13th July 2017 Jaime Castro, Marseille
• 5th July 2017 Julio Finalet, KU Leuven
• 27th June 2017 Michael Olvedy, KU Leuven
• 16th June 2017 Ana Marta Neto, Porto
• 10th March 2017 Evelien Mathieu, IMEC & KU Leuven
• 4th Jan 2017 Ruben Dries, KU Leuven & Univ. Rotterdam
• 16th Jan 2017 Simon Weinberger, KU Leuven
• 25th Nov 2016 Bob Blasdel, KU Leuven
• 18 May 2016: Ryo Sakay, KU Leuven
• 5th February 2016: Ignasi Morán Castany, Imperial College London
• 20 Nov 2015: Maya Jawdat Nicolas, KU Leuven (chair)
• 19 Nov 2015: Matthieu Moisse, KU Leuven
• 30 Sep 2015: P. J. Volders, UGent
• 25 March 2015: Ken Heyndrickx, UGent
• 3 March 2015: Niels van der Aa, KU Leuven
• 23 Jan 2015: Ana-Clara Fernandes, KU Leuven
• 2015: Karin van den Hurk, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
• 2015: Beril Lilje, Copenhagen University, Denmark
• 9 April 2014: Annelies Fieuw, UGent
• 2014: Philge Philip, Umea University, Sweden
• 27 Sep 2013: Mehreteab Aregay, KU Leuven
• 2013: Jorge Omar Yanez Cuna, IMP Vienna, Austria
• 2013: Greet Baets, SWITCH Lab, VIB & University of Leuven
• 2012: Charles Girardot (EMBL & ENS), Paris, France
• 2012: Marc Vaudel, Ghent University, Belgium
• 2010: Ingrid Arijs, University of Leuven
• 2008: Geir Kjetil Sandve, Univ. Trondheim, Norway

• 2023-: Lars Borm
• 2021-: Gabriele Partel
• 2021-: Olga Sigalova
• 2021-: Nikolai Hecker
• 2020-: Swann Floc’hlay
• 2017-: David Mauduit
• 2016-2022: Jasper Wouters
• 2015-: Sara Aibar
• 2020-2022: Jonas Demeulemeester
• 2021-2021: Nikoleta Psatha
• 2020-2021: Joy Ismail
• 2018-2021: Christopher Flerin
• 2014-2019: Zeynep Kalender Atak
• 2012-2016: Delphine Potier
• 2011-2014: Rekin’s Janky

• 2021-2022: Ho Sing Fred Lo (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Danira Abaffyova (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Adriana Samareanu (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Ivana Janickova (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Michael Goedertier (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Alexandra Pancikova (Bioinformatics)
• 2021-2022: Phuong Thao Tran (Bioinformatics)
• 2020-2021: Virginia Tsiouri (Biophysics)
• 2020-2021: Mehmet Erim Erdal (Bioinformatics)
• 2020-2021: Danie Daaboul (Bioinformatics)
• 2020-2021: Sonny Achten (AI)
• 2020-2021: Evangelia Balini (AI)
• 2019-2020: Ajay Sundaresan (Bioinformatics)
• 2019-2020: Austin George (Bioinformatics)
• 2019-2020: Seppe Dewinter (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2018-2019: Florian De Rop (Bioscience Engineering)
• 2018-2019: Linde van Aerschot (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2018-2019: Mariska Reniers (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2017-2018: Dafni Papasokrati (Bioinformatics)
• 2017-2018: Quinten Lauwers (Computer Science)
• 2016-2017: Jasper Janssens (Bioscience Engineering)
• 2016-2017: Carmen Bravo (Bioinformatics)
• 2015-2016: Nick Narinx (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2015-2016: Akshaya Ramakrishnan (Bioinformatics)
• 2015-2016: Camilo Andres (Bioinformatics)
• 2015-2016: Maria Escala Garcia (Bioinformatics)
• 2014-2015: Maryam Omrani (Bioinformatics)
• 2013-2014: Wouter Geens (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2012-2013: George Arun Devasia (predoc)
• 2010-2011: Matthias Maerivoet (Bioinformatics)
• 2010-2011: Gert Hulselmans (Biomedical Sciences)
• 2005-2006: Joris Grouwels (Engineering)
• 2003-2004: Peter Van Loo (Engineering)
• 2002-2003: Peter Van Loo (Bioscience Engineering)

• Koen Herten (2012)
• Jonas Meuleman (2013)

For an up-to-date overview, see GoogleScholar, ORCiD, or the Aerts lab website.

Referee for Bioinformatics, Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature, Cell, eLife and many others
Full overview

• SAB/review panel member @ CRG, Barcelona, Nov 2023
• SAB/review panel member @ MDC Berlin, 31 May-2nd June 2023
• ERC reviewing panel, Integrative Biology: from Genes and Genomes to System
• Clusters of Excellence, University of Heidelberg, Oct-Nov 2021 (virtual panel meeting)
• EMBL Review Panel, Structural and Computational unit, 2-4 May 2021
• SAB/review panel member for Vidal Virchow 2.0 open call for cell-based medicine project ideas
• SAB/review panel member @ EMBL Unit

• Frequently featured in (inter)national press, recent examples include:
  • VRT ‘Belgian scientists create synthetic DNA using artificial intelligence’, 12th Dec 2023
  • KU Leuven magazine Sonar, Sept 2023
• Eos podcasts on fruit fly research and the power of bioinformatics
• Speaker at stakeholder events and patient meetings, recent examples include
  • Invited speaker @ KU Leuven Open Science day - 24th Oct 2022
  • Invited talk at HERAN Health Tech Fund’s Investor Day, 20th Sept 2022
  • Beating Cancer Together, an event by ‘Stichting tegen Kanker’, 22th March 2022
  • Invited talk @ Kekulé series, Antwerp, 19th March 2022
• Our lab developed Mendelcraft, a computer game for children on mendelian genetics

• Born 11 Feb 1976 Heusden, Belgium
• Married to Nele Bayen
• Father of Juul, Achiel, and Korneel